# Gitframes

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Gitframes and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Useful terminal tool for reviewing git diffs and exploring repos, with a video demo people found impressive. Critics find the README dense and the name borrowed from git.

## What people warn about

- README too busy and dense (2 comments): "The readme is too busy, but the video showcase is impressive" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965579)) "Info-dense, completely unreadable README.md file." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965079))
- Name piggybacks on git (2 comments): "By your logic, every software project that uses git could have git in its name." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966006)) "seems like a confusing name, trying to piggyback off git popularity" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965128))
- README reads like LLM text (2 comments): "Stick that in front of your wall of LLM text" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965446)) "I doubt the "author" even read that README" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973651))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [lazygit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lazygit.md): 93 recommend
- [jjui](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jjui.md): 22 recommend
- [tig](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tig.md): 16 recommend
- [Ziggity](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ziggity.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gitframes", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gitframes/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).